Panthera tigris Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 In another turn and twist of the stock industry, Getty has just announced the end of its deal with Flickr. Apparently Flickr and G could not come to terms, so its being converted into a G collection called "moments". Not seen any further details though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Rooney Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Does this make me timid or smart for not joining? Or does it just point out that I'm too slow-moving to make use of opportunities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morrison Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Ah, the twists annd turns of the stock business... offering new and imaginitive ways for photographers to make very little money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert M Estall Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 voted with my feet years ago. On so many levels, why would you deal with these people in any way? Wouldn't cross the road...you know the rest of the fine graphic expression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stipe Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Joined it for one and half year. Enough time to realize that I was giving my images aways for small nuts only. Glad I left it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Ed, Or it makes us old enough and smart enough not to jump into things.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Smart Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 While I did well on G with a high RPI, I also quit 18 months ago and never looked back. Seems like Flickr has come to its senses (which wouldn't take much I know!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gervais Montacute Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 Getty, Alamy, Flikr etcetc. What the topics should really be is are these all failed business models from a contributor perspective? I feel sorry for anyone who has spent a huge amount of time amassing a huge amount of images on just about anywhere at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris E Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 In another turn and twist of the stock industry, Getty has just announced the end of its deal with Flickr. Apparently Flickr and G could not come to terms, so its being converted into a G collection called "moments". Not seen any further details though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris E Posted March 11, 2014 Share Posted March 11, 2014 In another turn and twist of the stock industry, Getty has just announced the end of its deal with Flickr. Apparently Flickr and G could not come to terms, so its being converted into a G collection called "moments". Not seen any further details though. This puts them all in with Getty's new iphone collection Moment. I haven't checked to see if it's live yet. The Moment app available to download . I don't know if that's for everybody we were invited a few weeks ago as GI contributor. Nice to see Alamy roll it out first.... Cheers Chris E Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Brook Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Getty, Alamy, Flikr etcetc. What the topics should really be is are these all failed business models from a contributor perspective? I feel sorry for anyone who has spent a huge amount of time amassing a huge amount of images on just about anywhere at the moment. Unfortunately the only business models that can be said to be working for contributors are elitist ones: some collections will only take on practising commercial togs, photojournalists with a track record, practising artists, practising specialist photographers - and still reject many, or are effectively closed to newcomers (like Stone). Both Alamy and Getty/Flickr are/were taking the risk of being open to everyone, and in the case of Alamy, everything. If contribs freely choose to take vast quantities of goods to market that nobody wants, then they can hardly blame the market owners for their own failure. RB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arno Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 Never took the bait when I got the invite from Getty through Flickr.They're a bunch of thieves.Good for Flickr (assuming that they are the ones to "not be able to come to terms"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Brooks Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 According to Jim Pickerell, Getty has sustained losses for the last 5 quarters. Getty used to do $850 million per year, but Shutterstock entered the microstock marketplace with low prices and now sells about $500 million per year. Shutterstock did this by grabbing microstock market share from other libraries such as Getty. This has to have hurt Getty's istockphoto division. In addition Getty is controlled by merchant bankers, who may be putting Getty under pressure to show a turnaround. In tough times Getty may not have the funds available to make a deal with Flickr Maybe Corbus, with the financial reserves of Bill Gates, will make a deal with Flickr. Maybe Shutterstock? Yahoo owns Flickr and has a new CEO who would be looking to monetize Flickr. Maybe Flickr may turn itself into a stock photo library. Maybe Maybe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Brooks Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Here is some free information from Jim Pickerell on what seems to be going on at Getty with a possible reason for the Flickr cut off. http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/getty-a-three-month-review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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